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TraceRootvsVert

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

TraceRootVert
Score58/10071/100
Rank in category#11 of 51 in Monitoring & observability#2 of 10 in File Conversion
GitHub stars1 13816 176
Stars, last 30 days+26+543
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest releasev1.3.3 · 27 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Vert scores 71/100 against 58/100 for TraceRoot, so it is the safer default.

TraceRoot ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Vert.

If you want the quickest setup, Vert is easier to run; TraceRoot needs more configuration.

Vert is growing faster right now (+543 stars in 30 days).

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